For Approval: TVA Open Source License

[Lawrence Rosen]

Bruce, I agree that GPL compatibility is a fine goal. But the provisions
they've changed on the NASA license don't affect that. I don't know why the
GPL is listed as incompatible with NASA at all. Let's let that argument take
place with FSF folks, not here.

/Larry





-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Perens [mailto:bruce at perens.com] 
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 12:33 PM
To: Lawrence Rosen
Cc: 'Carroll, James Ritchie'; license-review at opensource.org;
jmw at oss-institute.org
Subject: Re: For Approval: TVA Open Source License

Lawrence Rosen wrote:
> Whether or not it is compatible
> with the GPL is a matter for discussion on the FSF website, but is
> irrelevant to your proposal here.
Isn't that going a bit too far? GPL-compatibility is a significant goal, 
and IMO justifies the submission of a new license.
Regardless of the state of the NASA license, if they have chosen to 
steer clear of an existing argument by making a modification to the 
terms, that seems relevant.

    Thanks

    Bruce